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No. 669,7I4. Patented Mar. I2, 190|. v W. &. H. A. TRIPP.

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WAL1ER.'[`RIPP AND HENRY A. TRIPP, OF SODUS, NEW YORK. y

APPLE-PARER.

SPECIFIGATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,714, dated March 12, 1901.

' Application led Tune 22, 1898. erial No. 684,145. (No model.)

'.'lo all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WALTER TRIP? and HENRY A. TRIPP, residents of Sodus, in the county of Wayne and State of New `York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple-Parers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of appleparers having a carriage adapted to be re` ciprocated and carrying a swinging knifeframe.

One object of our invention is to provide improved means for reciprocating such carriage in such manner as to give it and the knife or parer a slow movement While the apple is being pared and a comparatively rapid return movement for economizing time.

Another object is to provide improved means for swinging the knife-frame; also, to provide improved means for locking the forks.

Other subordinate features will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the parer. Fig. 2 is a plan view, the driving-wheel being omitted. Fig. 3 is a side view of the grooved body for swinging the knife-frame. Fig. 4 is a sec tion on line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar view with a portion of the knife-frame in po- Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a front view of a portion of the crown gear-wheel. Fig. 9 is a partial plan showing the fork-shafts and their operating mechanism. V

1 indicates a rigid frame, the Atop of which is a tube or rod 2, on which bearings 3 are adapted to slide, said bearings forming theupper support of the carriage 4, and 5 being a foot or base of said carriage adapted to slide in the grooved way 6 on frame 1.

7 is a crown-wheel on a fixed aXle 8, The crown gear-teeth mesh with the pinion 9, conv nected with gear-wheel 10 on a shaft of the hand-Wheel or other drive-wheel 11.

12 is a rack-segment on Wheel 7, with teeth at right angles to the crown-teeth and in position during a part of each revolution to engage the rack 13, forming a part of the carriage.

As shown in Fig. 1, an apple has just been pared and the corer 14 has just been thrust into the apple, but has not been withdrawn. The rack-segment 12 is just engaging rack 13 to move the carriage toward the right to bring the knife into position to pare another apple, the paring being done while the knife is moving from right to left, Fig. 1. The rack-segment 12 being nearer the outer periphery of the Wheel has a rapid movement and moves carriage. 4 rapidly to the right. The end teeth 15 of rack 12 are enlarged and so shaped as to engage the correspondinglyenlarged end spaces of rack 13 and to readily engage and disengage therefrom. The forward tooth 15 starts rack 13 and brings the following teeth into engagement. The advantage of the enlarged tooth 15 of gear 12 and the enlarged corresponding recess of rack,

13 is important. It will be seen that the carriage has been moving toward the left, Fig. 1, under the operation of gear 20 and rack 19 and that when these parts cease to coact the carriage will have a tendency to continue its movement, due to its momentum, and that as the engagement of gear 12 and rack 13 operates to return the carriage to its normal position at the right of the machine they must iirst arrest the movement of the carriage towardtheleft. Experimenthasdemonstrated that in the case of an ordinary tooth for this purpose it will wear to such an extent as to become practically useless in a short time. Hence we enlarge the tooth and its corresponding recess to effect the object.

16 is a lug at about ninety degrees from the rack-segment 12 and in position'to move under the arm 17 of carriage 4. Lug 16 is so located that it will engage said arm just after an apple has been removed by the discharger 18, the effect being to move the carriage rapidly toward the left until rack 19 on carriage 4 is brought into engagement with the mutilated gear 20 on the hub of whee17. This gear, being near the center of wheel 7 will advance the carriage slowly while the apple is being pared.

21 isthe knife-frame, pivoted on pin 22, sup ported by the carriage.

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23 is a rod carried by frame'21 and supporting the knife or parer 24. The bottom of frame 21 is extended to form an arm 25 with a rounded end and having on its lower side a pin 26, adapted to enter and move along in a groove 27. Said pin 26 is on the same side of pivot 22 as the rounded endof the frame. As the carriage 4 moves from the position shown in Fig. 1 toward the right pin 26 enters groove 27, the walls thereof guiding the pin, swinging the frame through ninety degrees when. the rounded end of arm 25 has entered into the depression 28'and is thereby arrested. The onward movement of carriage 4 completes'the swinging movement of the knife-frame, the pin 26 moving out through the opposite end of groove 27. When the carriage is moving toward the left, the knife frame will be swung in the same manner, but in reverse direction. The cam-groove 27 and the cam groove or recess 28, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) in coperation with the pin projection 26 and the projecting end of arm 25, provide a rapid movement of the knife'in paring the ends of the apple and a slower lmovement in paring the bilge, this result being due to the fact that the pin, which operates to swing the knife when paring an end of the apple, is nearer the axis of the knife-frame than the end of the arm 25, which controls the knife in paring the bilge.

It will be noted that the grooved body or cam-plate containing groove 27 and depression 28 is separate and independent from the frame of the machine, and it is adapted to be secured to a plain portion of the frame, as shown.

29 indicates rack-teeth on the frame 1,which as carriage 4 moves toward the right are engaged by teeth 30, thereby swinging the corer back, as described in our Patent No. 572,689, of December 8, 1896.

Preferably two forks 31 are used, being supported onan axis 32, supported by frame 1 in such'manner that one fork is exposed for placing an apple thereon while the other fork is supporting the apple being pared. Just after the latter apple has been discharged the body 33, carrying the two forks at its opposite sides, turns half-way around, reversing the positions of the forks and bringing a fresh apple into position to be pared.

34 is a mutilated gear on axis 32 and is normally locked against rotation by the four arms 35 35 36 36', rigidly secured to the gear 34, and coperating parts. Arms 35 35 co operate alternately with flange 37, projecting from the inner face of gear-wheel 38, which is driven by pinion on the driving-shaft. 41 is a clutch. Arms 36 36'coperate with the arm 42, which is controlled by a flange 43, concentric with flange 37, but not constituting a complete circle, being broken away, substantially as shown in Fig. 7. Flange 37 is notched at 44 and has an elongated tooth 45. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) As wheel 38 turns the notch 44 comes under arm 35 just before through notch 44,bringing the mutilated gear 34 into mesh with wheel 37, completing the reversal of the forks. It is evident that the forks would be unlocked while notch 44 was passing under the end of arm 35 unless means were provided to prevent it. This is accomplished by the arms 36 36', the pivoted arm 42, and the iiange 43. These parts maintain the lock until the moment when tooth 45 strikes lock 47, when lever 42 is released by the flange 43 passing from under it. Lever 42 hasa shoulder 42', which prevents turning the drive-wheels except in one direction. If started reversely, one end of flange 43 will engage shoulder 42 and stop the machine. Gear 34 has two groups of teeth, each group only sufficient to move the forks about a halfcircle, when they again become locked.

is a wheel which engages wheels 51 on the vforks to rotate them alternately.

52 represents core-ejectors, and 53 is a plate arranged at an angle with the core-ejectors in such mannelthat as the forks are reversed the core-ejector moving to the front is pushed longitudinally, throwing out the core of the last` apple pared.

The outward movement of the corer and the first part of the return movement-that is, the movement caused by lug 16 engaging arm 17-are rapid; but the rest of the return movement while the corer is entering the apple is slower, since the carriage isthen being moved by rack 19 and gear 20.

55 represents curved plates which lie along the fork-shafts extending out from plate 33 to prevent exure or vibration of said' shafts in use. Said plates have end flanges 56,' which prevent apples from being pushed on too far.

We claim- 1. The combination of a frame, a carriage, means for moving the carriage in one direc- TOO IIO

tion, a gear mounted on the frame, and a rack on the carriage adapted to be engaged by the gear to move the carriage in the opposite direction, the end tooth of the gear and the corresponding recess of the rack being each eularged, as and for the purpose stated.

2. The combination, in an apple-parer, of a plurality of forks carried by a central shaft, of means for locking and releasing said forks for reversing their position consisting of a driven wheel 38 having interrupted flanges 37 43, and a body secured to the central forkshaft and having arms one of which rests on flange 37, locking the fork-shaftuntil said arm reaches the end of said ange 37, said body also having an arm 36 engaged by a lever 42, which lever is held in engagement with said arm 36 by flange 43 until the end of arm 35 has crossed the opening between the ends of the liange 37, and means for turning the fork-shaft.

3. The combination With a plurality of forks, a central shaft, and a four-armed device on said shaft, of a gear-Wheel having an interrupted llange, and a lever adapted for cooperation with the interrupted flange and With the four-armed device to lock the shaft in determinate situations.

4. In an apple-parer, a central shaft, a plurality of forks carried by said shaft, a fourarmed device on said shaft, agear-Wheel carrying two concentric interrupted flanges, a lever adapted for coperation Wit'h the inner liange and With either of two arms, of the four-armed device to lock the shaft in determinate positions,the outerilange beingadapt' ed to permit the revolution of the four-armed device when the lever is removed.

5. The combination of a central shaft carrying a plurality of forks, a device carried by the shaft and having four radial arms arranged in diametrically opposite pairs, one pair being of greater length than the other, a gear-Wheel carrying tWo concentric interrupted flanges, a lever adapted for coperation with the inner flange and With the longer arms of the four-armed device to lock the shaft in determinate situations.

6. The combination, with a plurality of forks, a central shaft, a four-armed device and mutilated gear on said shaft, of a gear- Wheel having interrupted flanges 37, 43, a lever cooperating with flange 43 and with the alternate arms for locking said shaft, and means for throwing the mutilated gear into engagement when the shaft is unlocked.

7. The combination, with a plurality of forks, a central shaft, a four-armed device and mutilated gear on said shaft, of a gearwheel having interrupted flanges 37, 43, a lever cooperating with flange 43 and With the arms for locking said shaft, and means for throwing the mutilated gear into engagement When the shaft is unlocked, and means consisting of a tooth 45 on the gear-Wheel and a lug or part fixed to the forkshaft and in position to be struck and moved forward by said tooth.

In testimony whereof We have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WALTER TRIPP. HENRY A. TRIPlP.

Witnesses:

F. T. PERcv, C. W. GAYLORD. 

